Caught Short

Author : Lisa Moore
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802192899

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Caught by Lisa Moore Pdf

The acclaimed author of February “combin[es] the complexity of the best literary fiction with the page-turning compulsive readability of a thriller” (National Post). Lisa Moore, a “Canada Reads” winner and a New Yorker Best Book of the Year author, introduces a dangerously appealing new protagonist unlike any she’s imagined before: a modern Billy the Kid . . . Caught begins with a prison break. Twenty-five-year-old David Slaney, locked up on charges of marijuana possession, escapes his cell and sprints to the highway. There, he is picked up by a friend of his sister’s and transported to a strip bar where he survives his first night on the run. But evading the cops isn’t his only objective; Slaney intends to track down his old partner, Hearn, and get back into the drug business. Along the way, Slaney’s fugitive journey across Canada rushes vibrantly to life as he visits an old flame and adopts numerous guises to outpace authorities: hitchhiker, houseguest, student, lover. When he finally reunites with Hearn just steps ahead of a detective hell-bent on making a high-profile arrest, their scheme sends Slaney to Mexico, Colombia, and back again on an epic quest fueled by luck, charm, and unbending conviction. In Caught, “Moore combines the propulsive storytelling of a beach-book thriller with the skilled use of language and penetrating insights of literary fiction. She pulls it off seamlessly, creating a vivid, compulsively readable tale” (Penthouse). “Propulsive, adrenalin-drenched.”—The Globe and Mail “Exhilarating . . . a memorably oddball and alluring novel that’s simultaneously breezy, taut, funny, and insightful.”—The Vancouver Sun

Author : Alex Games
Publisher : Random House
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781446415085

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Balderdash & Piffle: One Sandwich Short of a Dog's Dinner by Alex Games Pdf

Balderdash & Piffle: One Sandwich Short of a Dog's Dinner is a thrilling ride through the provocative, bewildering and often downright bizarre world of language and etymology. From the brash jargon of celebrity magazines to the delicacies and feints of the euphemism, author and word-sleuth Alex Games has uncovered the remarkable stories that lie behind some of our best-loved words and expressions. By grouping words into distinct themes - such as put downs and insults, the vocab of fashionistas and the lingo of dodgy dealings - Balderdash & Piffle looks at the English language in a fresh and revealing light. Who was the original Jack the Lad? What is the tragic story behind the expression Sweet F.A.? Balderdash & Piffle will show you where thugs come from, why 'barmy' once had more to do with your beer than your brain, and how a little bit of 'hanky-panky' could literally work magic. From the 'Cloud-cuckoo-land' of Aristophanes to the town of Balaclava, this is a funny but rigorously researched account of English words and their origins. Drawing together sources as diverse as William Shakespeare, David Cameron and the Burnham-on-Sea Gazette, Alex Games recalls the trends, innovations and scandals that have produced some of our most familiar but least explored words and phrases. Accompanying a brand new series of the hit BBC television programme Balderdash & Piffle - and containing all the results of the 'Wordhunt' from the first series -this entertaining book is a treasure trove for English-language lovers everywhere.

Author : Lynne Maree Walsh
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781681815657

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English, The Aussie Way by Lynne Maree Walsh Pdf

Written by a Sydney native, English, The Aussie Way: A Fun Guide to Australia’s Colourful Phrases, Words, and Expressions offers an amusing way for English or non-English speakers around the world to learn the colloquial phrases for which Australia is famous. This user-friendly reference provides words/phrases and meanings/synonyms by using an example sentence. Says the author, “For seven years I housed international students who were attending English language schools in Sydney, and I realised that although they had a good grasp of formal grammar, they struggled to understand not only colloquial English, but many of the commonly used phrasal verbs, which could not be found in a standard English/Spanish, French, etc., dictionary. It was then that I decided to start writing some of them down for future reference and it grew from there.”

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2322 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : F-111 (Jet fighter plane)
ISBN : MINN:31951P01180531L

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Department of Defense Appropriations for 1969 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations,United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : F-111 (Jet fighter plane)
ISBN : UCR:31210019136942

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Operation and maintenance, [Tuesday, April 2, 1968 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations,United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense Pdf

Author : Richard Smitten
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471023265

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Jesse Livermore by Richard Smitten Pdf

"An excellent read." —Ace Greenberg, Chairman, Bear Stearns Richard Smitten's Jesse Livermore is the first full biography of the legendary trader profiled in the bestselling Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Wiley: 0-471-05970-6). Although he died more than half a century ago, Livermore is considered by today's top traders as the greatest trader who ever lived. An enigmatic loner, misanthrope, and notorious miser, Livermore revolutionized the profession with his innovative timing techniques, money management strategies, and high-momentum approach to trading stocks. Smitten provides a vivid portrait of Livermore and the times in which he lived and operated. He deftly combines eyewitness accounts of those who knew Livermore with fascinating stories of sensational love affairs, shootings, and suicides, and a detailed exploration of the trading strategies that made Livermore several fortunes in his lifetime. Richard Smitten (Key West, FL) is the author of several books, including The Godmother, the critically acclaimed story of a famous woman criminal.

Author : Kevin Dowd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349248568

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Competition and Finance by Kevin Dowd Pdf

Competition and Finance offers a new, unified treatment of the fields of financial and monetary economics. The first part integrates recent developments in agency theory and information economics into a unified financial theory of the firm. A review of recent developments in the economics of banking and then monetary economics leads to a conclusion assessing present-day systems of central banking and proposing financial and monetary reform.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : United States
ISBN : LOC:00187303047

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The Supplemental Appropriation Bill for 1951 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : Larry Harris
Publisher : CFA Institute Research Foundation
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781934667927

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Trading and Electronic Markets: What Investment Professionals Need to Know by Larry Harris Pdf

The true meaning of investment discipline is to trade only when you rationally expect that you will achieve your desired objective. Accordingly, managers must thoroughly understand why they trade. Because trading is a zero-sum game, good investment discipline also requires that managers understand why their counterparties trade. This book surveys the many reasons why people trade and identifies the implications of the zero-sum game for investment discipline. It also identifies the origins of liquidity and thus of transaction costs, as well as when active investment strategies are profitable. The book then explains how managers must measure and control transaction costs to perform well. Electronic trading systems and electronic trading strategies now dominate trading in exchange markets throughout the world. The book identifies why speed is of such great importance to electronic traders, how they obtain it, and the trading strategies they use to exploit it. Finally, the book analyzes many issues associated with electronic trading that currently concern practitioners and regulators.

Author : Jay Lampert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350347984

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Philosophy of the Short Term by Jay Lampert Pdf

The concept of the short term involves a complex network of quantitative, qualitative, and operational ideas. It is essential everywhere from the ontology of time, to the science of memory, to the preservation of art, to emotional life, to the practice of ethics. But what does the idea of the short term mean? What makes a temporal term short? What makes a time segment terminate? Is the short term a quantitative idea, or a qualitative or functional idea? When is it a good idea to understand events as short term events, and when is it a good idea to make decisions based on the short term? What does it mean for the nature of time if some of it can be short? Jay Lampert explores these questions in depth and makes use of the resources of short (as well as long) term processes in order to develop best temporal practices in ethical, aesthetic, epistemological, and metaphysical activities, both theoretical and practical. The methodology develops ideas based on the history of philosophy (from Plato to Hegel to Husserl to Deleuze), interdisciplinary studies (from cognitive science to poetics), and practical spheres where short term practices have been studied extensively (from short term psychotherapy to short term financial investments). Philosophy of the Short Term is the first book to deal systematically with the concept of the short term.

Author : Karen Fairweather,Paul O'Shea,Ross Grantham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317158073

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Credit, Consumers and the Law by Karen Fairweather,Paul O'Shea,Ross Grantham Pdf

Consumer law, particularly consumer credit law, is characterised by increasingly complex regulation in Western economies. Reacting to the Global Financial Crisis, governments in the UK, the EU, Australia, New Zealand and the United States have adopted new laws dealing with consumer credit, responsible lending, consumer guarantees and unfair contracts. Drawing together authors from all of these jurisdictions, this book analyses and evaluates these initiatives, and makes predictions as to their likely success and possible flaws.

Author : Elaine Higgleton
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : English language
ISBN : 8186062033

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Chambers Pocket Dictionary by Elaine Higgleton Pdf

Author : Gail Brenner
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780544188907

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Webster's New World: American Idioms Handbook by Gail Brenner Pdf

The most comprehensive reference for understanding and using the contemporary idioms of American English—with more than 1,000 entries. Mastering the use of idiomatic language is an essential step toward achieving fluency in any language. Webster's New World: American Idioms Handbook is the ideal guide to the slang, sayings, expressions, jargon, and colloquialisms of American English—covering more than 1,000 entries. Emphasizing acquisition and application, this book explains their meanings as well as when, where, why, and how to use them. A wealth of examples helps readers understand each idiom’s connotation and identify its appropriate context. An extensive index allows for quick and easy reference.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498439

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Mack Reynolds
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479447206

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The Earth War by Mack Reynolds Pdf

In the 21st Century the face of war had changed. Atomic weapons -- out! Bazookas and rockets—nyet! Machine guns—maybe. The newest secret weapon—gliders! East and West had managed an uneasy truce in the arms race by banning ail weapons developed before 1900—and restricting wars to local disputes between corporations or companies and unions. It was a crazy way of doing things, but it worked—until an ambitious Major upset the apple cart, and threw the world's peace into deadly peril! In this exciting picture of the next century, veteran science-fiction writer MACK REYNOLDS combines mastery of a unique setting with a fast-action story of combat and intrigue.